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"...if voters select narcissists as their leaders, they may end up with gifted stage performers who are persuasive and decisive. They may, however, also get a good deal more than they bargained for.” Scott O. Lilienfeld, Professor, Emory University, Georgia: and Ashley L. Watts, graduate student, Emory University New York Times 4 September 2015 Illustration: Gérard DuBois “The political rise of Donald J. Tr...

Analysing Tony Blair’s war-time leadership (involving no less than four military interventions), the author asks “did other parts of the British power structure play their constitutional role?”" Pauline Schnapper, Professor of British Studies, Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Chapter 4 of 'Leadership and uncertainty management in politics', Edited by Agnès Alexandre-Collier, François Vergniolle De...

“Accept that powerful people have a dark side. And adjust your thinking to deal with reality.” Schumpeter blog, Economist, 5 September 2015 Illustration: Brett Ryder “Is there a little bit of Mr Trump in all powerful people? …Academics….find that, once primed for power, even the most reticent people experience significant changes in their behaviour…. “A number of firms have introduced “co-CE...

"Overconfident CEOs  have a higher tendency to undertake mergers... overestimate future earnings... borrow more aggressively against future earnings to avoid missing current earnings forecasts ..." Ulrike Malmendier, Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley. Geoffrey Tate, University of North Carolina Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(4): 37-60. This paper “provides a theoretical and ...

How vulnerable are we to our hormones – and are there physical tricks to producing more of the confidence-enhancing hormone that boosts motivation and risk-taking - or less of the cortisol that inhibits those behaviours? William Lee Adams, New Scientist 18 June 2015 Image: Renaud Vigourt “Confidence … can have an inverse relationship with performance: the Ancient Greeks invented the word hubris for a reaso...

"200 years after his defeat, what lessons can we learn from his successes and his failures? Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Maastricht School of Management, Jonathan Gosling, Professor of Leadership, University of Exeter. Publisher: SAGE  "They followed him through the Egyptian desert, through the snow of Russia, and when he made a surprise comeback after going into e...

"Testosterone positively predicts an executive’s number of subordinates (an indicator of attained status), but only if the executive’s cortisol levels are low. Reducing cortisol levels via stress reduction may … enhance leadership potential. Gary D. Sherman and Jennifer S. Lerner, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory,  also Robert A. Josephs, Jonathan Renshon and James J. Gross Journal of Personality and Social Ps...